My spouse and the the so-called “Wife Acceptance Factor” (WAF) were the motivation behind me creating this website. For as long as we have been enjoying our home theater system, there has been a problem with understanding the dialog coming from the center channel. I have now discovered a simple and inexpensive solution to the problem. More about this and other natural sound products (that are also WAF compliant) will be explored on this site.
After visiting numerous hi-fi and HT blogs I rarely encountered the term “discreet” applied to audio or loudspeakers. So, this site was created to allow an interchange of ideas plus a review of the technology and products that truly qualify as discreet loudspeakers.
Although small, unobtrusive speakers are sometimes labeled “discreet” or “lifestyle”, they are generally no more than computer speakers or, cheap little surround “cube” speakers. So-called (and often self-anointed) audio experts are notorious for dismissing this classification of audio gear; dubbing them unworthy of their consideration as serious audiophile grade products. Their mindset dictates that no little speakers can measure up to the huge tower or panel speakers that they embrace. Even “bookshelf” is a lowly type of speaker classification that quickly gets their noses up into the air.
But here, possibly for the first time ever, it will be revealed that a clear, natural sounding loudspeaker that meets and exceeds all WAF compliance parameters does exist and is now available at reasonable costs. Is this not the ultimate goal that we all seek in a true hi-fidelity sound system for the consumer at reasonable prices - meaning a few hundred rather than several thousand dollars? Is achieving that combination an improbability with existing loudspeaker technology? Read on! THERE IS SOMETHING NEW AND PROVEN that breaks through that wall of denial and improbability.
To lay the groundwork, it is given that many high-end loudspeaker manufacturers claim that their product reveals that the natural sound goal has already been achieved. But even with elaborate technical specifications and graphs offered up as proof, more often than not their claims are proven false with revealing listening tests. Why? Because it has been discovered that natural sound is rarely ever reproduced (even in expensive high-end speakers) without…
- compromising or limiting the options of speaker placement,
- restrictions on speaker alignment toward the listener,
- limitation of ideal listening location to a single “sweet spot” (narrow dispersion) ,
- tracing the source of sounds produced by a subwoofer to a box rather than integrating low frequencies with the other speakers in the system for accurate imaging
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Widely separated gas molecules attract each other and maintain equilibrium between attractive and repulsive. This attraction becomes greater as the spacing is reduced but turns to a strong repulsion when the molecules get too close together. There is a certain degree of separation prior to repulsion that must be maintained for the constant pressure operation to occur. When the molecules are nearing the critically defined repulsive distance their nuclei and electrons react causing an exponential increase in heat. It is this reaction, which enhances the piston resonance and pushes it to a higher frequency. The Embedded Transmission Line must maintain the pressure within an arbitrary +/-1 range for molecular spacing for attraction and repulsion. It does this using captive molecular vorticity that dissipates heat within its structure thereby cooling the cylinder volume. The goal is to maintain the temperature of the gas behind the piston so that the molecules are spaced within the narrow range exhibiting mild attractive-repulsive forces. It is in this range where a real gas exhibits the macroscopic properties of an ideal gas with pressure changes relating primarily to kinetic motion of the molecules that allow work to be done. The molecular cooling within the ETL™ advances toward the cylinder volume to regulate molecular spacing within the cylinder. This thermal process is to maintain a laminar (linear) stream when the piston moves towards the gas creating pressure that is essentially constant throughout the -work cycle as the volume is reduced. The positive going cycle reverses the piston separating and cooling the gas molecules to maintain pressure constant as the piston increases cylinder volume. The pressure is maintained as the molecules remain within the +/-1 range for molecular spacing. The current theory of operation for loudspeakers (including closed tweeter or midrange designs) involves both macroscopic and microscopic thermal modes to cause a heat increase. The microscopic mode is highly reactive but both modes contribute to molecular heating and exponentially increasing pressure preventing the diaphragm from accurately performing the work that it is intended to do. It is apparent that from the initial days of loudspeaker development the primary goal was to prevent cancellation of front and rear waves of the driver. The macroscopic aspects of pressure were observable and no importance or observations of the microscopic properties were possible in the early days. The pressure problems, although currently obvious, have not been addressed to date with the exception of the ETL™ developed by TBI Audio Systems to allow for the consideration of the extremely important atomic properties of a real gas, air. The wide dynamic range of the ear makes it responsive to this unnatural phenomenon making it the number one obstacle to natural sound reproduction. The improper use of physical laws has stagnated the development of accurate loudspeakers throughout the 20th century.
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